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Howard Martin Temin
Howard Martin Temin 1934-94, American virologist, b. Philadelphia, Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 1959. A professor at the Univ. of Wisconsin in Madison, Temin began his cancer research while still a student, working with his professor Renato Dulbecco and fellow student David ... Read more |
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, scientific research centers run by the Univ. of California, located in Berkeley, Calif., and Livermore, Calif., respectively. They are named for their founder, physicist Ernest O. Lawrence , who organized the... Read more |
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Volcanological research
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International Ultraviolet Explorer
International Ultraviolet Explorer Developed during the 1970s, the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) was a joint project between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC), formerly known as the Science and Engineering... Read more |
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Madison
Madison: Introduction The capital of Wisconsin, Madison is also the seat of Dane County and the focus of a metropolitan statistical area that includes the entire county. The city was founded as the state capital, where no other permanent settlement had previously existed, on a unique geographic... Read more |
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John Bardeen
John Bardeen , 1908-91, American physicist, b. Madison, Wis., grad. Univ. of Wisconsin (B.S. 1928, M.S. 1929), Ph.D. Princeton, 1936. He was a research physicist at the Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1945 to 1951. In 1951 he became professor of electrical engineering and physics at the Univ. of... Read more |
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Heinrich Wilhelm Matthaus Olbers
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers , 1758-1840, German astronomer and physician. He originated (1797) the first satisfactory method for calculating the orbits of comets, but despite the fame it brought him, he remained an amateur astronomer and became a physician. However, he continued his... Read more |
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Sir James Hopwood Jeans
Sir James Hopwood Jeans 1887-1946, English mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. He was professor of applied mathematics at Princeton Univ. (1905-9), later lectured at Cambridge (1910-12) and Oxford (1922), and was research associate at Mt. Wilson Observatory (1923-44). He was knighted in 1928.... Read more |
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Mount Wilson Observatory
Mount Wilson Observatory astronomical observatory located in California on Mt. Wilson, near Pasadena. Mt. Wilson Observatory was founded in 1904 by George E. Hale . Its equipment includes 100-in. (2.5-m) and 60-in. (1.50-m) reflecting telescopes and two solar-tower telescopes 150 ft. (46 m)... Read more |
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Comets observed around nearby star
...evidence of dozens of comets around a nearby star. The discovery...HD 163296 was observed because it is the type of star astronomers thought...planets. Although the star observed by Bjorkman ... |
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NASA Satellite Sees Solar Hurricane Detach Comet Tail
...had been observed. Preliminary...magnetic fields around the comet...detaches the comet's tail...phenomena. Comets are icy leftovers...another comet or a nearby star sends a ... |
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NASA SATELLITE SEES SOLAR HURRICANE DETACH COMET TAIL
...had been observed. Preliminary...magnetic fields around the comet...detaches the comet's tail...phenomena. Comets are icy leftovers...another comet or a nearby star sends a ... |
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NASA'S SPITZER DETECTS COMET STORM IN NEARBY SOLAR SYSTEM.
...this epoch, comets and other...band of dust around a nearby bright star in the northern...obliterated giant comet. This dust...one or more comets. The Eta...Bombardment in the nearby star ... |
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NASA'S SPITZER DETECTS COMET STORM IN NEARBY SOLAR SYSTEM
...this epoch, comets and other...band of dust around a nearby bright star in the northern...obliterated giant comet. This dust...one or more comets. The Eta...Bombardment in the nearby star ... |
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NASA's Spitzer Detects Comet Storm in Nearby Solar System
...this epoch, comets and other...band of dust around a nearby bright star in the northern...obliterated giant comet. This dust...one or more comets. The Eta...Bombardment in the nearby star ... |
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NASA's Spitzer Detects Comet Storm in Nearby Solar System.
...this epoch, comets and other...band of dust around a nearby bright star in the northern...obliterated giant comet. This dust...one or more comets. The Eta...Bombardment in the nearby star ... |
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NASA's Spitzer Finds Comet Storm in Nearby Solar System.
...this epoch, comets and other...band of dust around a nearby bright star in the northern...obliterated giant comet. This dust...one or more comets. The Eta...Bombardment in the nearby star ... |
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Comet storm detected in nearby solar system
...20 -- Icy comets could be...band of dust around a nearby bright star in the northern...obliterated giant comet. This dust...one or more comets. 'We believe...Bombardment in the nearby star ... |
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Christmas Star shines in a cosmic ballet
...immediately: Halley's Comet. Although the...Chinese astronomers observed a "broom-star...planets took place around the time of Christ...Leo - another star pattern associated...the Christmas Star - for Herod ... |
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